#853 - Retiree Earns Extra Income with Upcycled Journals
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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A nonprofit consultant makes journals from recycled materials, using her side hustle to transition into retirement.
Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are.
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| 0:00.0 | I love a good story about someone's second act, or in some cases someone's third act. |
| 0:13.9 | We have a lot of listeners out there of retirement age, or approaching that age who don't |
| 0:18.8 | want to just stop working. |
| 0:20.3 | You understand that work doesn't have to just be a chore or something you kind of get |
| 0:23.7 | through to get on with rest of your life, but that can actually be something that is meaningful. |
| 0:27.8 | It's an important space in your life. |
| 0:29.8 | If all of a sudden you just completely cut it all out, you might not be that happy. |
| 0:34.2 | At some point in the program, I may have mentioned my grandpa. |
| 0:36.9 | This is my grandpa Bill. |
| 0:38.4 | He has passed on now, but he was in the merchant marines for a while. |
| 0:42.2 | Then he had a 20-year career working at NASA, which my dad later followed in his footsteps |
| 0:47.0 | and did that. |
| 0:48.1 | My grandpa retired pretty early. |
| 0:50.4 | He worked for 20 years, but once he retired, he was still fairly young. |
| 0:54.7 | If I recall correctly, he had to retire. |
| 0:56.5 | It was like a mandatory retirement thing. |
| 0:58.8 | After that, he didn't really do a lot. |
| 1:00.9 | He just worked in the garden, which is fine, but he basically did that every day for years |
| 1:06.1 | and years. |
| 1:07.1 | Several of us in the family later said he may have actually been happier because he |
| 1:11.5 | wasn't always that happy. |
| 1:12.7 | He may have actually been happier if he had been able to have a second act. |
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